Debian 11 on a Mid-2011 Apple iMac 27-inch

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:59:21 -0700

An Apple Mid-2011 iMac 27-inch “Core i5” 2.7 fell into my lap some time around 2017, and even though it had a few years of MacOS support ahead, it was slow — never mind the 20 GB of RAM I added when supporting it for an Adobe Creative Cloud workflow.

Booting took forever. Updates took forever. Saving an inDesign document took … you guessed it. A lot of spinning beach balls. (You know when I get spinning beach balls in Linux? NEVER.)

I've been using Syncthing to mirror files in Linux, Windows, MacOS and OpenBSD, and it's working

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 15:39:51 -0700

Now that I’m running a new Debian 10 Buster laptop and use Dropbox to sync 160 GB of personal files, I have turned to the open-source, Go-coded Syncthing to keep about 500 MB of work-related files mirrored across that Linux laptop, a Windows 7 desktop and a 2011-era iMac desktop.

It’s all pretty much seamless. I have the Syncthing client running on each PC, and I can monitor the “state” of the sync via a web GUI. Syncthing doesn’t consume a lot of CPU, especially when compared with Dropbox, though I’m not syncing anywhere near as much data for business on Syncthing as I am for personal use on Dropbox.

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Debian 11 on a Mid-2011 Apple iMac 27-inch

I've been using Syncthing to mirror files in Linux, Windows, MacOS and OpenBSD, and it's working